Sterling, Bruce
Shaping Things (Mediawork Pamphlet)
- ISBN 13:
- 9780262693264
- author:
- Sterling, Bruce
- format:
- Paperback
- publisher:
- MIT Press
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2005
- Pages:
- 152
- Dimensions:
- 140 mm X 191 mm
- Genre:
- Cultural studies
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 20 working days
Description
Shaping Things explores the future of technology through objects that can be regarded as material instantiations of an immaterial system. In this addition to the Mediawork Pamphlet series, Bruce Sterling offers a brilliant and often humorous history of created objects and their environment. Sterling describes how we have moved from handmade artifacts to complex machines and now to "gizmos" - new forms of design and manufacture that lack historical precedent. However, these production methods are unsustainable due to the use of archaic forms of energy and finite materials. The future will see a new kind of object, one that is user-alterable, baroque, and programmable, with informational support so extensive it can be regarded as material. Sterling coins the term "spime" for these future-manufactured objects, which are designed on screens, fabricated by digital means, and precisely tracked through space and time. The intricate design of Lorraine Wild brings this vision to life, highlighting the need for us to become involved in their production.
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